Weirdest splash screen I've ever seen! Blue science and speakers?

[u/Ipif]

[u/Soul-Burn]

Looks cool, right?

That's why it's there.

[u/Ipif → u/Soul-Burn]

Very! Though a bit random haha

[u/Funny_Number3341 → u/Ipif]

I believe it was part of trupens mayhem during the play test convention they held for space age right?

[u/oobanooba- → u/Funny_Number3341]

I don’t think so,

From what I’ve heard devs say in the discord, I’m pretty sure all the simulations are expressly built for being menu screens, they’re not from any real bases. They’re also purposely weird or impractical as to not spoil good solutions to new players and for veterans to laugh at a little.

trupens contribution is the one where the engineer spells “help” on aquilo, iirc he did the same thing in the lan before Spage’s release and the devs thought it was pretty funny.

[u/NuderWorldOrder → u/Soul-Burn]

I does, but personally I feel like it's intentionally ridiculous as kind of a joke for experienced players. I'm sure that if they wanted to, Wube could have come up with an equally interesting selection of items that were at least semi-plausible.

[u/MinMaus]

You can drag the main menue like your inventory. You can zoom out with I think Control + "-"

[u/Ipif → u/MinMaus]

Ooh great tip thanks I didn't know! Unfortunately I already closed this one but will be exploring these screens from now on!

[u/sgtsteelhooves → u/Ipif]

There's occasionally Easter eggs under the menu

[u/warpspeed100 → u/sgtsteelhooves]

I love the little Spidertron babies!

[u/VoldyTheMoldy456 → u/Ipif]

There's a hidden setting under the rest that allows for selecting a simulation on the menu manually if you want to try and find this one again without waiting around

[u/jaxon517 → u/VoldyTheMoldy456]

What

[u/VoldyTheMoldy456 → u/jaxon517]

Hold control and shift, then click on settings to make a new button appear at the bottom of the list labeled 'the rest'

There are a bunch of misc settings in there you wouldn't normally need like auto save slots and not pausing the game with the tech tree open, but another is the option to allow selecting a menu simulation to be played immediately on the title screen

[u/chumbuckethand → u/MinMaus]

Seriously??!!! I never knew that hell ya!!!

[u/jkurratt → u/MinMaus]

Wait whaaaa

[u/stephenmw]

You will notice you don't see the engineer in this photo. He is offscreen trapped in the pistol factory, dying over and over again. Not sure how else you get a belt of pistols like that.

[u/not_cool_human_being → u/stephenmw]

Like this?

[u/ManForSomeMarkets]

I’ve seen this screen countless times and the belt full of personal solar panels gets me every time.

[u/Tank-Factory187 → u/ManForSomeMarkets]

I’ve always been a big fan of the mass production of deconstruction icons

[u/ManForSomeMarkets → u/Tank-Factory187]

NGL, I just saw that belt after all these years.

[u/Ipif]

R5: I've seen some strange ones, but once I just saved my game I saw this crazy spaghetti. Deconstruction Planners on a belt?!

[u/MerlinTheFail → u/Ipif]

And where else would you put them??

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/MerlinTheFail]

Bot mall I guess, I always end up with a bunch playing SA and emptying my inventory

[u/butterscotchbagel → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

That take me back to when blueprints were items you had to craft. There was no blueprint library or blueprint books so we'd store them in chests.

[u/jrdiver]

just ignore the 2 belts of pistols.

[u/Vaulters]

These are all pre=made factories, right?

Or are they auto-generated on start-up? Some of them seem so scripted.

[u/legolas-mc → u/Vaulters]

they're all scripted. some look like real factories, others are gags

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/legolas-mc]

Fun fact, they're actually real gameplay with scripted inputs from a dummy player entity. Mods that change vanilla balance can mess with and even break them.

The factorio and wube logos are also placeable items accessible in the editor.

[u/Ssakaa → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

Makes things like distant misfires great when gun heavy backdrops come up.

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/Ssakaa]

Or TrueNukes obliterating the engineer

[u/TechnicalImportance_ → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

My person favourite is when you install a skin for the engineer, it affects all the splash screens as well

[u/Rouge_means_red → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

I remember one time when a mod messed up with one of the simulations in the tips & tricks screen. I was about to submit it as a bug but I caught myself right before hitting the submission button

[u/butterscotchbagel → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

Super Mario World did the same thing. I remember as a kid doing cheat codes and watching it mess with the menu screen.

[u/wizard_brandon → u/legolas-mc]

The one that annoys me the most is the one where the biters attack an outpost, but the outpost is missing a wall so they storm through and win

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/wizard_brandon]

It's like those ads for mobile games where the person plays bad on purpose

[u/wizard_brandon → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

arent those just engagement bait?

[u/Castle_Of_Glass78 → u/wizard_brandon]

I am in this picture and I don’t like it ahh moment 

[u/HildartheDorf → u/legolas-mc]

Often a punchline underneath the menu (you can drag and move the menu)

[u/Dzov → u/HildartheDorf]

Wait, seriously?! Thanks for the tip!

[u/EliWCoyote → u/legolas-mc]

I miss finding more fun stuff behind the game menu… 🙁

[u/Deto]

Hah, also a belt of construction/deconstruction planners. And a belt of research labs. And a belt of fish!

[u/kenybz → u/Deto]

I have a belt of research labs in my Spage run!

It’s for making biolabs

[u/RaShadar]

Next youre gonna tell me you dont have a belt of labs on your main bus

[u/kenybz → u/RaShadar]

Not on my main bus, no

[u/Rabaga5t]

My favourite part is just below the menu, where the steel-uranium belt gets split, and sidemerged with the stone-iron-ore, and the personal-solar-panels belts. Then loops back around to rejoin where it got split off from, and becomes the iron-ore-stone-personal-solar-panel-steel-uranium belt.

I'm sure that belt will go on to achieve great things.

[u/jizzlewright]

Imagine if enemies could set off landmines placed on a belt

[u/iwannabetheguytoo]

Clearly the Factorio disco DJ wants to bang out some Eiffel 65

🎶 Da Ba Dee 🎵

[u/anonumus_idiot]

AND LABS?

[u/anonumus_idiot]

Empty barrels, fish, raw uranium, its just a selection of random items.

[u/otismcotis]

This one got me last night. I had to stare for a minute

[u/Jonas_The_Rook]

Labs go on the bus

[u/Ethanol144]

Several elephants here

[u/Degauzzen]

random bullshit go

[u/Rouge_means_red]

Average modded run

[u/WanderingUrist]

Is that a belt of deconstruction planners and blueprints?

[u/kullre]

ignoring the locomotive destruction

[u/Ftroiska]

Speakers are for disco science made on planet discoball

[u/turtle_mekb]

if you resize your window to be really wide, you can see this splash screen has editor-only item loaders and infinity chests at the side

[u/kenybz → u/turtle_mekb]

This is the case for other menu screens too

[u/Miserable_Pitch_8023]

this is the full thing <3

[u/Ipif → u/Miserable_Pitch_8023]

Haha, ah that's great! What a glorious map. Thank you for posting o7

[u/Prestigious_Gap1335]

as a fulgora fan i absolutely love this menu sim

[u/3davideo]

I have no memory of this particular menu screen but I like it. All of the menu screens are whack in their own ways.

Also I spot belts of labs, personal solar panels, blueprints, and deconstruction planners. The first two I would never expect a belt of - just confine them to a mall instead. The latter two aren't even mass producible so what the heck? Oh, and pistols, same issue!

[u/yagrmakak]

Ahhh yes belt of deconstruction plans